One More Time with Feeling

2016
PG
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

5.7K

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Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.

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Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.

Director
- Andrew Dominik
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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

5.7K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Andrew Dominik
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Nick Cave and Andrew Dominik had an agreement in which Dominick could shoot anything he wanted and ask any question, and Cave would be able to cut whatever he didn't like. Despite the agreement, Cave was angry at the final cut and worried it was exploitative; the film was ultimately released without cuts. After seeing the film again with an audience, Cave embraced it as "a gift" to himself, his wife Susie and his deceased son Arthur.

Quotes
Nick Cave: Things have been torn apart. And I'm desperately trying to find a way of making some kind of narrative sense out of it, if we're talking about songwriting, or at least some sense out of it where... I can do what it keeps saying in the books, or what people keep saying to me, where I can reduce this chaotic mess that's happened to me down into something that's more... you know, that I can reduce it, distill it down to a platitude that I can fit nicely into a kind of greeting card-sized platitude that means something to me, like 'He lives in my heart,' or something like that. People say it all the time to me, 'He lives in my heart,' and I go, 'Yeah, yeah, no, I know,' but he doesn't. I mean, he's in my heart, but he doesn't live at all. And there is no... I want to be able to sit here and... round this off in some kind of way, but to me it's just not, um... um...
[can't come up with the right words]

Connections
Referenced in Radio Dolin: The 10 Most Anticipated Films of the Year (2022)

Soundtracks
Jesus Alone
Performed by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds)
Lyrics by Nick Cave
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

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One of the most personal documentaries in recent memory

To call One More Time With Feeling a great achievement and leave it at that would be to ignore just how unique it is in a vast sea of documentaries. Instead of being about the death of Nick Cave's son and treating that as the primary subject, the film revolves around Nick Cave's creative process and in the meantime how his personal loss affected that process. There are a lot of philosophical ideas going around, so even though the premise and structure of the film is simple, it's a very weight film to experience. Andrew Dominik can create an atmosphere like no other (for an example, see The Assassination of Jesse James) and here he's able to so perfectly capture the kind of thoughtful ideas and imagery that are associated with Cave's internal process. This is a great one and not to be missed.